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Miguel De Cervantes (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
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Miguel De Cervantes (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)Miguel De Cervantes (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Credited with having written one of the first "novels", Cerventes' masterwork Don Quixote continues to inspire and was recently released in a new translation.
 
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)Cry, the Beloved Country (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Alan Paton's striking novel set in pre-apartheid South Africa puts forth the possibility of the existence of goodness in humankind against a backdrop of racial inequality, hate, and fear.
 
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1000 Solved Problems in Modern Physics
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1000 Solved Problems in Modern Physics1000 Solved Problems in Modern Physics

This book basically caters to the needs of undergraduates and graduates physics students in the area of modern physics, specially particle and nuclear physics. Lecturers/tutors may use it as a resource book. The contents of the book are based on the syllabi currently used in the undergraduate courses in USA, U.K., and other countries. 
 
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Manual of modern Scots by James Main Dixon
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Manual of modern Scots by James Main DixonDr Main Dixon, felt the need of a book to which he could refer them for details of Scottish Grammar and Pronunciation, which he could employ, in class, for the recitation of our literary masterpieces. Part I describes the sounds of Modern Scots with examples of their use written in the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association. Part II contrasts Scots Grammar with Standard English usage and gives copious illustrations from Modern Scottish Literature. Part III consists of a series of extracts from Modern Scots writers and a selection of ballads and songs.

 
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Language in Cognition: Uncovering Mental Structures and the Rules Behind Them
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Language in Cognition: Uncovering Mental Structures and the Rules Behind Them

Cedric Boeckx provides a wonderful, modern review of the necessity of mentalism, of innate structure for all of the mind, and the role of mathematics in articulating different principles of representation for different modules of mind---a summary of the Chomskyan revolution over the last half century. He brings perspective to the project by connecting the history of philosophy with modern experimentation showing that the “generative” approach to both language and mind has received stunning support in acquisition, processing, and aphasia.
 
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